Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tomorrow. Republican organizations in some states, notably Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Arkansas, have been moderate on the racial issue and receptive to Negro membership. Elsewhere in the South, said the report, the Republican Party in 1964 "appeared to be pandering to those elements intent on turning back the clock of history." The five Deep South states that Goldwater carried were those with the most disfranchised Negroes-many of whom have since won the vote under the 1965 Voting Rights Act and are registering overwhelmingly Democratic...
...professors, one from Harvard and one from Boston University, will issue a report next Saturday evaluating the impact of "Operation Exodus" on racial imbalance problems in Boston's schools...
...impending report was revealed by Mrs. Ellen Jackson, chairman of Operation Exodus, at a press conference yesterday. They also presented a three-year plan for correcting Boston's racial imbalance and upgrading its schools...
...Exodus program was issued in response to the School Committee's decision Thursday to maintain its ban on public busing to relieve racial imbalance. Some $4 million in state aid to Boston's school system is being withheld by the State Board of Education until the School Committee presents a "satisfactory" imbalance plan...
...change it further, the President's forthcoming civil rights bill sets up detailed instructions for the selection of federal juries, composition of jury commissions, such technical matters as challenges by the defense. The jurors are to be drawn from voting rolls, but where there is evidence of racial discrimination, other methods are to be employed. Above all, the administration of the system is left to the Court of Appeals judges acting as the judicial council for each circuit, and not to individual, possibly segregationist judges. The bill also bars discrimination in state jury lists and puts federal courts...